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A Spanish aid worker freed by Islamist militants in Mali was flying home Wednesday while an Italian woman was still in Al Qaeda's clutches after earlier reports of her release, sources said.
March 8 is International Women's Day, a national holiday in Burkina Faso. One way of celebrating is by making new clothes from Women's Day cloth that is designed with a new pattern every year.
Being a man of letters, I find them fascinating. Not letters, like 'Dear John' letters, but letters, like those that appear frequently in the alphabet.
Michael Doran outside his shop in Leighlinbridge during the floods. 12.5m: Bill for repairs after cold snap MICHAEL DORAN, Cathaoirleach of County Carlow, businessman, father and resident of Leighlinbridge didn't file an insurance claim after his electrical business and home went under water in the November floodings.
Ball State Students and members of the Muncie community were able to learn a little about a country in West Africa Wednesday afternoon.
Giving birth should be one of the happiest days in a woman's life and it is for the majority of women in Hong Kong, North America and Europe.
Brittany is a funny place. It's that elbow of northwest France that sticks out into the Atlantic and finishes with a department called Finistere - the end of the earth.
West African regional grouping Ecowas on Sunday lauded government and opposition parties in Ivory Coast for agreeing on a new government and electoral body to resolve the country's political crisis.
Secretary-General's Special Representative for Cote d'Ivoire Y. J. Choi with President Blaise Compaore of Burkina Faso 25 February 2010 – The political tension in Cote d'Ivoire that followed the dissolution of the Government and the independent electoral authority is gradually decreasing, the top United Nations official in the divided West ...
A meningitis epidemic has killed 246 people in Burkina Faso since the start of the year, the health ministry announced on Thursday.
He got his first one-year extension in 2005. And another in 2006. And every year since, President Laurent Gbagbo has gone through the motions of organizing presidential elections, only to cancel them at the last minute.
Hundreds of people took to the streets of Ouagadougou on Wednesday during a 24-hour strike called to protest at a new tax on motor vehicles and bicycles in Burkina Faso.
Mediator Blaise Compaore looked to have sealed a deal to end Cote d'Ivoire's political crisis on Monday after the key players agreed to salvage a political accord and keep long-awaited elections in sight.
The top United Nations envoy in Cte d'Ivoire today met with the African mediator seeking to end the political crisis threatening the much-delayed elections in the divided West African country.
Two top opposition leaders refused late Sunday to join the government which is expected to be announced Monday.
The four leaders in the Rally of Houphouetists for Democracy and Peace , an opposition coalition, met in the morning at the home of former president Henri Konan Bedie.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and Burkina Faso's Minister of Foreign Affairs & Regional Cooperation Bedouma Alain Yoda held a joint press conference following their gathering in the Turkish capital.
Ivory Coast demonstrators block roads, burn tires Ivory Coast's opposition supporters hold a placard reading "Gbagbo the attacker" as they protest in a street of the central town of Toumodi.
Scoop >> World >> Côte d'Ivoire: Electoral Body Dissolved Wednesday, 17 February 2010, 11:04 am Press Release: United Nations Ban Calls for Calm in Côte d'Ivoire After Government, Electoral Body Dissolved New York, Feb 16 2010 1:10PM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on the people of Côte d'Ivoire to avoid any action that ...
Cote d'Ivoire President Laurent Gbagbo on Friday dissolved the government and the Independent Electoral Commission in the culmination of tensions over the alleged voter list fraud, a setback on the electoral process approaching the planned polls.
